How can you print the content from a post_parent in an attachment?

In your image.php template file you could:

<?php echo apply_filters( 'the_content', get_post_field( 'post_content', $post->post_parent ) ); ?>

The reason you’re getting the current post description is because the current post is the image. The above grabs the content of the attachment posts parent and runs it the the_content filter which will add the HTML and format it as it would a normal post.

You’re right. Thanks very much.

Is it possible to add something to this to also print the (linked) category of the original post?

You can use wp_get_object_terms() passing in the $post->post_parent and whatever the taxonomy is ( ‘category’ for Post Categories ) which will return an array of WP_Term objects. You could loop through them and display them:

$terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->post_parent, 'category' );
if( ! empty( $terms ) ) {
    foreach( $terms as $term ) {
        printf( '<a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>', get_term_link( $term ), $term->name );
    }
}

Something like that.

I’m seeing that

<?php echo apply_filters( 'the_content', get_post_field( 'post_content', $post->post_parent ) ); ?>

carries over the fact that there are paragraphs, and puts them inside <p>’s, but it doesn’t retain the styles for p’s or allow me to add css to do so.

Also, this is really helpful stuff. If you have email and PayPal, we could maybe do something where I could ask you this type of basic question, which occurs every once in a while when I’m working on a theme for my own projects, and maybe just give you like $20cad for each simple answer via PayPal? Not a great budget, but they’re mostly just small sites with no real revenue.

carries over the fact that there are paragraphs, and puts them inside <p>’s, but it doesn’t retain the styles for p’s or allow me to add css to do so.

It could be that the other pages CSS styles are derrived from a container class that isn’t brought over to the image.php script. For example, a post page may have a container of <div class="content"> or something where you imaage template may not have that. The easiest thing to do is use your in-browser inspector to tell the differences. Without seeing the two pages side-by-side it would be difficult to suggest a a solution.

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Thanks. Yes, I’d been using the inspector, and actually css-ing is the one thing I’m good at webcode-wise, but it just wouldn’t apply the styles nomatter what. I ended up removing some styles from the .css that were somehow overriding anything else I tried.

OK, no probs. Just after getting headaches on these little code questions for days and then coming on here and someone helping and it working, you just feel like you want to at least offer something.

Resolved.

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Since this topic is resolved, in an abundance of caution, I’m closing this topic.